First juvenile Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit 'scoped by Richard Smith at Caldy (NW England) yesterday (29 July). Early juvs travel with adults, making it easy for them to find traditional wintering sites. See blog about juvenile settlement: wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/juv… #ornithology

Velvet-purple Coronet in Ecuador, this day in 2014, taken with a Panasonic Bridge Camera.

An ‘air skirmish’ over our Northumberland coast garden.

Half an hour early, but ‘Nip and Punch’ for the first of the month!! Hope you have a fantastic August everyone.

The hunting season in parts of coastal France opens this weekend so I am hoping that the ban on shooting Curlew and Black-tailed Godwit is renewed today. Background here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/bla… #ornithology

Little Egret at the Aln Estuary, Northumberland.

The first of the wintering or passage Dunlin are now arriving onto the tidal mud of the Aln Estuary, Northumberland ⁦Wetland Bird Survey⁩ ⁦Graham Appleton⁩

Tom Cadwallender Wetland Bird Survey I reckon that's a passage 'schinzii' - cinnamon rather than chestnut of 'alpina' and shortish beak - so that one is probably passing through. wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/whi…

Silver-throated Tanager in Colombia.

"We Didn't Start the Fire" Going down across Alnmouth Bay, #Northumberland

‘Adorable’, Fulmar chick still in the nest on the #Northumberlandcoast Be careful not to get too close, as you might just receive a shower you wouldn’t like. #seabirds

“Can't Take My Eyes Off You” Good morning from the #Northumberlandcoast

It would be lovely to see you… join us for our final live show of the summer season: 11am-1pm today on lionheartradio.com ⁦Tom Cadwallender⁩ #northumberland

5am Northumberland coast - heavy rain!

#SuperSeabirdSunday Roseate Tern getting for departure from the Northumberland coast, David. ⁦David Steel⁩

Avocet in the saltmarsh at the Aln Estuary.

Avocet in the saltmarsh at the Aln Estuary.

Hare today, gone tomorrow!

Southern Emerald Toucanet in Colombia.

Curlew crabbing at the Aln Estuary, #Northumberland ⁦Graham Appleton⁩ ⁦Wetland Bird Survey⁩